RE: Is V7R1 catching on?

["Pete Massiello" <pmassiello-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Some of the time it is hardware pushing them to get off of V5R4, ie getting
a new Power7 machine.  Others it's been wanting to stay current (which are
my smart customers).  A few have wanted to get to the last Java SDKs for
performance, and then there were a few that after I was showing them how
easy to create PDFs that pushed them wanting to upgrade.

Going to 6.1 & 7.1 is a smart decision, the problem is how much difficulty
customers are having with their application conversions.   The customers who
have had issues are the ones over the last few years decided to drop their
maintenance on their applications to save money.  Now, they can't get a new
version of their application code with observability/creation data.

	Pete

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Evan Harris
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 1:10 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Is V7R1 catching on?

Hi Pete

What's been the driver for getting them to upgrade in your experience ?

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Pete Massiello
<pmassiello-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> John,
>
>        We have been upgrading customers since last spring to V7R1, and it
> has been rock solid.  At the end of last year (2010), we were doing more
> upgrades to V7R1 a week than we could really handle.  Most of the V5R4
> customer upgrades we are now doing are going directly to V7R1, and that is
> about the same work as going from V5R4 to V6R1.  Most of my 6.1 customers
> have either moved to V7R1, or we have plans for upgrading them this spring
> to V7R1.
>
>        We have been going crazy with upgrades, but I can say with the
right
> planning and preparation, they are smooth.
>
>        Pete
>
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> Pete Massiello
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